Can you be sued if you havn't downloaded any content, and havn't uploaded any content, but provide a website that hosts.torrent files?
Remember Napster? The old Napster?
They never downloaded any content, they never uploaded any content. Not one single solitary byte of music content ever touched their servers. All they did was put people who wanted music in touch with people who were willing to send it to them.
Nonetheless, they got nailed.
You run a website that hosts.torrent files, you're doing pretty much exactly what Napster used to do. Remember, right and wrong are irrelevant, what matters to the court is precedent. What hath been done before may lawfully be done again, as Dr L. Gulliver once explained to the Houyhnhms to their great astonishment.
Don't you mean Crówt, son of Trollbot, son of Thorgard, son of Geernon, son of Erik from Valdalesc, son of Arval Gristlebeard, son of Harken, who killed
No, he means Crowt von Trollbotsthorgardergeernonvanerikzuvaldalescsberga rvalgemachtgristlebeerdeharkennen of Ulm.
The bombs set off on the mainland UK were set off by Northern Irish terrorists
They were set off by terrorists in a political quarrel concerning Northern Ireland. However, these terrorists came from all over Ireland. The PIRA recruited from the Republic itself and from Republican areas of Northern Ireland, and had operations throughout the Republic along the lines of organisation, training and supply.
Certainly many of the terrorists who have set off bombs in the UK were from the UK, but many were in fact from the Republic.
Yet oddly enough entry requirements have just been relaxed for visitors coming from Saudi Arabia, where 15 of the 19 9/11 hijackers came from.
Welcome to America, where common sense is second fiddle to political correctness.
Heh. It's even better in the UK.
We're about to get compulsory biometric IDs; this, we are told, will Protect Us From Terrorism.
Everyone in the UK will have to have these IDs. All foreigners will of course have to be carrying passports anyway. Everyone in the country, then, will be identifiable...
With one exception.
The UK has one wide-open border: that with the Republic of Ireland. The British need no passport to go to Ireland, and the Irish need no passport to come to Britain.
Now, these ID cards are supposed to protect us from terrorists... can anyone in the class tell me whereabouts in the world all the ACTUAL terrorists who've carried out ACTUAL bombings in the UK have come from? Iran? No. Pakistan? No. Arabia? No. Ireland?
Yep.
So, any suspicious-looking bugger with an Irish accent has a valid excuse for not carrying an ID. He's just across from Dublin and does not have to have one.
Didn't it have something to do with there being 5 commandments on each of the tablets? Or are you referring to the mythical 3rd tablet?
There were actually _four_ tablets.
Moses came down Sinai with the Commandments and saw Aaron and the rest of the Israelites cavorting with a golden calf. He broke the tablets in horror, and denounced the sin he saw. Later he went back up Sinai in order to get hold of God's backup tablets, which God graciously provided.
Therefore there is a God-given right to a backup. Since you can't get the backup direct from God any more, you have to make your own - but really that's just an application of the parable of the talents, isn't it?
This is Slashdot. This is where people dig up antediluvian machines and install Linux on them out of pure masochism. I'll bet you anything you like that at least three people will follow up this post to confirm that they're installing Gentoo on an old 486DX/33 and that they're expecting it to finish compiling and be able to start up X in just another week or two...
Throwing people into volcanoes is a Star Wars thing! For Trek... hmm... something involving radiation poisoning from an overloaded reactor would seem appropriate.
Downloader man, where will you run to?
Downloader man, where will you run to?
Downloader man, where will you run to?
All on that day.
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
All on that day.
Downloader man, site's 404ing
Downloader man, site's 404ing
Downloader man, site's 404ing
All on that day.
Run to P2P, fast central server
Run to P2P, fast central server
Run to P2P, fast central server
All on that day.
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
All on that day.
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
All on that day.
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
All on that day!
People tend to be clever monkeys when you put a block on their mp3s/pr0n -- and then revert to their usual neanderthal status when they don't feel an acute need anymore.
What a delightfully paradoxical metaphor.
Monkeys used as exemplars of cunning and intelligence, Neandertals envisaged as ultimate in grunting stupidity... ol'Darwin's spinning in his grave right now.
The Goku processor might run very very hot when in Super Seyan mode.
This is ironic, as the SSJ technology was originally added to the Gokuu processor line in order to correct a previous overheating problem: the Kaioken clock-multiplier tended to overload the processor and sometimes cause severe damage.
The best approach is probably to run a dual system, perhaps with a Bejita coprocessor for best results. Make sure they're both running at the same SSJ multiplier level, though, else they won't synchronise correctly.
Hey, Batman's not a terrorist! If he was a terrorist he'd live in a cave with a bunch of loyal followers and train them to fight a secretive guerrilla war against anything that offended his personal moral code.
In addition, if Batman were a terrorist the Joker would long ago have given up on trying to find the Batcave, left Gotham and started causing trouble in Metropolis, on the basis that there's a definite connection to Batman even if he isn't actually there.
I mean, how about I create a character called UBERBRAWLFIST 3000 and claim that he is so powerful he could take Marv out in one blow?
Yeah, but Son Gokuu would totally kick UBERBRAWLFIST 3000's ass. Even without becoming a Suupaa Saiyajin.
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Now, now. The Pope is Catholic, that's true enough. The previous Pope... well, that depends on whether or not you're Catholic.
If you are Catholic, then the late John Paul II is now with God and is (presumably) still Catholic, assuming such terms apply in the vastly different context of post-mortem existence. If you're not Catholic, then the Pope is now presumably either Just Plain Dead, With God But Disabused Of His Mistaken Notions, In Hell Repenting His Errors or Reincarnated As A Week-Old Baby And Of No Particular Religious Convictions Just Yet.
Either way, though, the Pope, Benedict XVI, is most definitely Catholic.
You'd expect that if there was one place in the world you could do your thing safe from persecution by corporate cartels, it would be in a communist country.
I realise that the Party in China is rather lax and generally much too soft on counterrevolutionary and imperialist elements, but this is bloody ridiculous...
Look, don't complain about the corporations. The King, who is appointed by divine right, grants the corporations land, and in exchange they provide him with fighting men in wartime. The corporations in turn grant land to executives, who (in theory) turn out to fight when called upon. In practice, the executives then rent out the land to poor tenant farmers, the serfs, who not only actually do the fighting in wartime but also work the land, paying a portion of their income to the landlord and the Church and keeping back enough to support themselves and their family in moderate means.
You see how the system works to everyone's benefit? Everything fits together tidily. It's called feuda^H^H^H^Hcapitalism, and it's a good thing, despite what Comrade Tyler and his gang of pinko subversives might have you believe.
I say, "its an art class, how about making PARODIES of the IMAGES too?"
WalMart don't like his site using their graphics? Well, I'm sure some good Slashdotter will soon post a link to the image he should put up instead... I'm sure WalMart won't like their customers inadvertently staring into the Great Gaping Hole O' Horror, but hey, it's not their image, so screw 'em!
Imprison them for watching a movie 2 weeks before The Movie Company wants you to watch it?
That would be Morgan's approach. Never liked him... Economic victories just aren't satisfying. Anyway, imprisonment wouldn't be the thing. Nerve stapling for people who watch the movie, and the distributors get the punishment sphere.
P.S. Shouldn't you say "Mwahahahahaaa!" or something at the end?;-)
The bit about Daleks wasn't enough?
P.S. This little subthread is Offtopic, guys. A post can't be Overrated unless it's already been modded up. Mod me down by all means, Planet knows I've got the karma to spare, but get the classification right;-)
Heck, the bill had to pass, it had the word "family" in, nobody wants to vote against family.
That's the key, you see. Cunning use of bills.
As you say, putting 'family' in the name is good. Or perhaps you might slip something evil in with something good. Perhaps it's a 'perverted arts' amendment into the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield. You vote for it? Next election campaign, "he voted for government money for perverts!" You vote against it? Next election campaign, "he voted against the evacuation!" Better yet, if you then remove the evil amendment and have the vote again... Next election campaign, "he flip-flops!"
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Remember Napster? The old Napster?
They never downloaded any content, they never uploaded any content. Not one single solitary byte of music content ever touched their servers. All they did was put people who wanted music in touch with people who were willing to send it to them.
Nonetheless, they got nailed.
You run a website that hosts .torrent files, you're doing pretty much exactly what Napster used to do. Remember, right and wrong are irrelevant, what matters to the court is precedent. What hath been done before may lawfully be done again, as Dr L. Gulliver once explained to the Houyhnhms to their great astonishment.
Not quite; that's the on/off switch.
Chii! ^_^
No, he means Crowt von Trollbotsthorgardergeernonvanerikzuvaldalescsberga rvalgemachtgristlebeerdeharkennen of Ulm.
This would be Bejita's approach to software development, I suppose... 'I do have a pure heart, it's just that mine's pure evil.'
They were set off by terrorists in a political quarrel concerning Northern Ireland. However, these terrorists came from all over Ireland. The PIRA recruited from the Republic itself and from Republican areas of Northern Ireland, and had operations throughout the Republic along the lines of organisation, training and supply.
Certainly many of the terrorists who have set off bombs in the UK were from the UK, but many were in fact from the Republic.
Welcome to America, where common sense is second fiddle to political correctness.
Heh. It's even better in the UK.
We're about to get compulsory biometric IDs; this, we are told, will Protect Us From Terrorism.
Everyone in the UK will have to have these IDs. All foreigners will of course have to be carrying passports anyway. Everyone in the country, then, will be identifiable...
With one exception.
The UK has one wide-open border: that with the Republic of Ireland. The British need no passport to go to Ireland, and the Irish need no passport to come to Britain.
Now, these ID cards are supposed to protect us from terrorists... can anyone in the class tell me whereabouts in the world all the ACTUAL terrorists who've carried out ACTUAL bombings in the UK have come from? Iran? No. Pakistan? No. Arabia? No. Ireland?
Yep.
So, any suspicious-looking bugger with an Irish accent has a valid excuse for not carrying an ID. He's just across from Dublin and does not have to have one.
I feel so safe now, don't you?
There were actually _four_ tablets.
Moses came down Sinai with the Commandments and saw Aaron and the rest of the Israelites cavorting with a golden calf. He broke the tablets in horror, and denounced the sin he saw. Later he went back up Sinai in order to get hold of God's backup tablets, which God graciously provided.
Therefore there is a God-given right to a backup. Since you can't get the backup direct from God any more, you have to make your own - but really that's just an application of the parable of the talents, isn't it?
This is Slashdot. This is where people dig up antediluvian machines and install Linux on them out of pure masochism. I'll bet you anything you like that at least three people will follow up this post to confirm that they're installing Gentoo on an old 486DX/33 and that they're expecting it to finish compiling and be able to start up X in just another week or two...
Throwing people into volcanoes is a Star Wars thing! For Trek... hmm... something involving radiation poisoning from an overloaded reactor would seem appropriate.
Everyone got kind of bored of nefarious villains with names beginning with 'O'.
Downloader man, where will you run to?
Downloader man, where will you run to?
Downloader man, where will you run to?
All on that day.
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
Run to the web, web sites supply me!
All on that day.
Downloader man, site's 404ing
Downloader man, site's 404ing
Downloader man, site's 404ing
All on that day.
Run to P2P, fast central server
Run to P2P, fast central server
Run to P2P, fast central server
All on that day.
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
Downloader man, it was sued by Metallica
All on that day.
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Run to Kazaa, no single point of failure
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
Downloader man, it's all full of junk files
All on that day.
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
Downloader man, decentralise the torrents
All on that day!
What a delightfully paradoxical metaphor.
Monkeys used as exemplars of cunning and intelligence, Neandertals envisaged as ultimate in grunting stupidity... ol'Darwin's spinning in his grave right now.
This is ironic, as the SSJ technology was originally added to the Gokuu processor line in order to correct a previous overheating problem: the Kaioken clock-multiplier tended to overload the processor and sometimes cause severe damage.
The best approach is probably to run a dual system, perhaps with a Bejita coprocessor for best results. Make sure they're both running at the same SSJ multiplier level, though, else they won't synchronise correctly.
Hey, Batman's not a terrorist! If he was a terrorist he'd live in a cave with a bunch of loyal followers and train them to fight a secretive guerrilla war against anything that offended his personal moral code.
In addition, if Batman were a terrorist the Joker would long ago have given up on trying to find the Batcave, left Gotham and started causing trouble in Metropolis, on the basis that there's a definite connection to Batman even if he isn't actually there.
Yeah, but Son Gokuu would totally kick UBERBRAWLFIST 3000's ass. Even without becoming a Suupaa Saiyajin.
If you are Catholic, then the late John Paul II is now with God and is (presumably) still Catholic, assuming such terms apply in the vastly different context of post-mortem existence. If you're not Catholic, then the Pope is now presumably either Just Plain Dead, With God But Disabused Of His Mistaken Notions, In Hell Repenting His Errors or Reincarnated As A Week-Old Baby And Of No Particular Religious Convictions Just Yet.
Either way, though, the Pope, Benedict XVI, is most definitely Catholic.
* fires up VtM: Bloodlines *
* loads up Nosferatu savegame *
* looks closely at male avatar *
Errr... I'll get back to you on that.
* loads up Malkavian savegame *
* looks closely at female avatar *
Now THAT'S an avatar I'm happy to spend the whole duration of the game staring at the back of...
You'd expect that if there was one place in the world you could do your thing safe from persecution by corporate cartels, it would be in a communist country.
I realise that the Party in China is rather lax and generally much too soft on counterrevolutionary and imperialist elements, but this is bloody ridiculous...
'Scuse me? You want professors to offer a reward - presumably, higher marks - for producing specifically right-wing propaganda?
You see how the system works to everyone's benefit? Everything fits together tidily. It's called feuda^H^H^H^Hcapitalism, and it's a good thing, despite what Comrade Tyler and his gang of pinko subversives might have you believe.
WalMart don't like his site using their graphics? Well, I'm sure some good Slashdotter will soon post a link to the image he should put up instead... I'm sure WalMart won't like their customers inadvertently staring into the Great Gaping Hole O' Horror, but hey, it's not their image, so screw 'em!
Exceptions to copyright for parody, fair use, etc. only apply to those who have lawyers.
That would be Morgan's approach. Never liked him... Economic victories just aren't satisfying. Anyway, imprisonment wouldn't be the thing. Nerve stapling for people who watch the movie, and the distributors get the punishment sphere.
P.S. Shouldn't you say "Mwahahahahaaa!" or something at the end? ;-)
The bit about Daleks wasn't enough?
P.S. This little subthread is Offtopic, guys. A post can't be Overrated unless it's already been modded up. Mod me down by all means, Planet knows I've got the karma to spare, but get the classification right ;-)
Is that where you can do a whole year's worth of product testing in a single day?
Nah, never mind. Who wants to employ a reviewer who turns into King Kong at full moons?
That's the key, you see. Cunning use of bills.
As you say, putting 'family' in the name is good. Or perhaps you might slip something evil in with something good. Perhaps it's a 'perverted arts' amendment into the bill to evacuate the town of Springfield. You vote for it? Next election campaign, "he voted for government money for perverts!" You vote against it? Next election campaign, "he voted against the evacuation!" Better yet, if you then remove the evil amendment and have the vote again... Next election campaign, "he flip-flops!"
Ah, the joys of governmental corruption ;-)